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Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman Awarded ISA 2014 Thought Leader of The
Year
SALT LAKE CITY, March 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Each year ISA gives
four industry awards at their annual spring conference. ISAis the only
industry specific association devoted exclusively to the issues and
needs of business owners, founders, CEOs, and leaders in the training
and performance industry. This year's prestigious thought leader award
will go to the extraordinary team of Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman.
ISA's awards committee explained the unique partnership of these two
leaders: "Initially, Jack and Joe developed an unexpected
partnership. Jack has spent more than 50 years working in human
resources for some of the largest companies in the world. Conversely,
Joe is a statistically inclined organizational psychologist who has
focused his career on building statistical models that interpret human
behavior. Together, they developed a training and development company
that was grounded in data and backed by practical ideas. While the
partnership wasn't immediately obvious, it has proven to be successful
with many worldwide companies."
Since the company's beginning in 2002, Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman
have developed three award winning training programs, and countless
customized surveys for the some of the world's largest and most
successful companies. They have also collaborated on a number of
bestselling books including: How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership
Success by Magnifying Your Strengths, The Inspiring Leader: Unlocking
the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders Motivate, and The
Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders.
Both Jack and Joe continue to share their latest research as
contributors to both Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/jackzenger/
and Harvard Business Review. Their cutting edge ideas and research
have been broadcast and published in The Wall Street Journal, Business
Week, CBS News, Fox News, NPR, CLO, The Washington Post, and many
others. Additionally, Zenger Folkman made this year's Training
Industry's list of the Top 20 Leadership Development providers of
2014.
ISA is an organization dedicated to bring members of the industry
together who share a passion for learning, for new ideas, for better
solutions, and for succeeding in the business they love. In a combined
statement Joe Folkman and Jack Zenger said: "We are honored to be
members of ISA and chosen for this award. We value the mission of this
organization and how it brings our industry together to learn from one
another. At Zenger Folkman our purpose is to continually strive to
develop leaders who, in turn, elevated the people, organization and
world around them."
To hear more of Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman's thought leadership
attend their webinar, Develop the Forgotten Leaders, on March 26th, by
registering at zengerfolkman.com/events/.
About Zenger Folkman: Zenger Folkman is the authority
in strengths-based leadership development. Their award-winning
programs employ research-based methods that improve organizations and
turn good managers into extraordinary leaders.
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